Dr. Lazlo Rothbart

This search includes results that are not relevant to tricks or sleights (e.g. columns, reviews, articles, ...). Click here to hide these results.

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Al Baker, Audley Walsh	Number Please	Audley Walsh Method (spectator remembers bottom card, moves that many cards from top to bottom and reads off some cards) Al Baker Method (above method disguised by using a cut and half the deck)	Related to Al Baker Number Please and Al Baker Is Good (Al Baker, 1972) Variations Die Gedachte Karte (Dr. Lazlo Rothbart, 1941) Variations for "Number Please" (Ted Heuber, William H. McCaffrey, 1943)	1937	Encyclopedia of Card Tricks	325	Cards / Effect Themes / Phone Effects / For normal phone conversations
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart	Coloroto	four-of-a-kind changes front and back with partial rough-smooth	Also published here Coloroto (Dr. Lazlo Rothbart, 1983)	Dec. 1939	The Jinx (Issue 71)	481	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Multiple Cards Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Rough and Smooth (not full deck)
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart	Thought Transmission	flash light code	Related to Moonlight Madness (James G. Thompson Jr., 1941) Improved Light Communicator (Tony Corinda, 1959)	May 1939	Chap's Scrapbook (Vol. 1 No. 11)	2	Mental Magic / Effects / Two Person Telepathy
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart	Sugar Lumps	on of three sugar cubes disappears		Aug. 1939	Chap's Scrapbook (Vol. 2 No. 2)	4	Salt, Pepper & Sugar / Sugar Cubes / Vanish
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart	X Marks the Spot	monte with three blank chips, one has X on one side		Oct. 1939	Chap's Scrapbook (Vol. 2 No. 4)	3	Chip / Miscellaneous
Paul Scheldon	Unter Magischem Zwange	two piles with different amount of matches, selected one is predicted	Related to Der Prophet (Dr. Lazlo Rothbart, 1944)	1939	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 1 No. 2)	3	Match & Matchbox / Match / Mental Stuff Mental Magic / Principles / Multiple Out Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous
Stanley Collins, Dr. Lazlo Rothbart	Thoughts O.K.	prepared (double indices) and ungaffed method for princess card trick		1940	The Jinx (Issue 86)	547	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Fake Indices Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / Princess Card Trick (Five Cards)
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart	Surprise Sponge Climax	three sponges two in spectator's hand, when spectator opens his hand, several small ones appear	Related to Sponge Ball Routine (Dr. Stanley Jaks, 1951)	Jan. 1940	Chap's Scrapbook (Vol. 2 No. 7)	2	Spongeball / Appearance & Production
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart	Beats the Band!	handling for jumping rubber band		Feb. 1940	Chap's Scrapbook (Vol. 2 No. 8)	3	Rubber Band / Traveling Rubber Band / Penetration / Miscellaneous
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart	The Spectre Slate	chosen object is divined, with slate, hard and soft chalk		May 1940	Chap's Scrapbook (Vol. 2 No. 11)	4	Mental Magic / Effects / Divination Slate / Normal
James G. Thompson Jr.	Moonlight Madness	thorough discussion of his and Julia Thompson's Two-Person Code Act, involving flash light for coding, ESP coding, see also p. 348 of Pallbearers Review for credit claim	Related to Thought Transmission (Dr. Lazlo Rothbart, 1939) Improved Light Communicator (Tony Corinda, 1959) Variations The Photon Phenomenon (Robert Cassidy, 2003) Also published here Moonlight Madness (James G. Thompson Jr., 1944)	Apr. 1941	The Jinx (Issue 135)	769	Propless / Coding / Using Assistant
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart	Die Gedachte Karte	card selected and placed on top of the deck, value of selection is used to add cards on top	Inspired by Number Please (Al Baker, Audley Walsh, 1937)	July 1941	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 3 No. 7)	7	Cards / Principles / Key Card / Distant Key Card Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart	Ihre Chance	selection is found at position of number made by removed matches from matchbox		June 1941	La Baguette Magique (Issue 6)	4	Cards / Effect Themes / Number Effects / Card(s) at A Number(Numbers) Cards / Principles / Miscalling
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart	Der Mysteriosen Perlen Ching Lung Soo's	four pearl are placed inside nose, ear and eye and all end up in mouth		Feb. 1942	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 4 No. 2)	2	Pearl & Marble
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart	Impossible!	Si Stebbins is used but any stack possible		Aug. 1942	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 4 No. 8)	3	Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Memorized / Full Deck
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart	Forcer	handling for classic force, followed by french translation "Une bonne methode de forcer la carte"		1943	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 5 No. 1)	10	Cards / Sleights / Force / Classic Force
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart	Stop	spectator and performer each deal half the deck, performer stops to locate selection, followed by french translation		1943	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 5 No. 2)	4	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Single Card
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart	Kartenclairvoyance	divination of playing card		1944	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 6 No. 1)	10	Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / Center Tear
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart	Der Prophet	two piles with different amount of matches, selected one is predicted	Related to Unter Magischem Zwange (Paul Scheldon, 1939)	1944	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 6 No. 2)	9	Match & Matchbox / Matchbox & Matchbook Mental Magic / Principles / Multiple Out Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous
Tan Hock Chuan	R. & S. Giant Monte	odd-backed queen cannot be followed, changes in joker as kicker, partial rough-smooth	Inspired by Coloroto (Dr. Lazlo Rothbart, 1939)	1948	Rough & Smooth Possibilities	1	Cards / Jumbo Cards (exclusive) / Routines / Gambling Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Rough and Smooth (not full deck) Cards / Effect Themes / Gambling / Three Card Monte / Packet Trick with Monte theme
Dr. Stanley Jaks	Sponge Ball Routine	three sponges two in spectator's hand, third vanishes and when spectator opens his hand, fifty small ones appear	Related to Surprise Sponge Climax (Dr. Lazlo Rothbart, 1940) The Impossible Dream (Jeff White, 1980) Also published here Die Schaumgummibälle (Dr. Stanley Jaks, 1961) Multiball (Dr. Stanley Jaks, 2014)	1951	Who is this Dr. Jaks?	4	Spongeball / Routines
Tony Corinda	Improved Light Communicator	based on the Thompson method	Related to Thought Transmission (Dr. Lazlo Rothbart, 1939) Moonlight Madness (James G. Thompson Jr., 1941) Hans Th. Hiebber's "Auch eine Gedankenübertragung" in "Magie", 1948. Vol. 1, p.7.	1959	Two Person Telepathy	252	Propless / Coding / Using Assistant Mental Magic / Effects / Two Person Telepathy
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart, Edwin Leist-Bernini	Dr. Rotbart's Kartenmysterum	four piles, 4 cards are selected, then deck is shuffled and dealt again into four piles, top cards match selections, duplicates		1961	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 22 No. 5)	103	Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Miscellaneous
Rolf Andra, Dr. Lazlo Rothbart	Die Asse			1968	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 29 No. 6)	116	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Rough and Smooth (not full deck) Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Ace Assembly / Gaffed
Dr. Lazlo Rothbart	Coloroto	four-of-a-kind changes front and back with partial rough-smooth, see also p. 89 for comment by John Crimmins	Also published here Coloroto (Dr. Lazlo Rothbart, 1939)	1983	A History of the Brainwave Principle	74	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Multiple Cards Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Cards / Rough and Smooth (not full deck)

25 entries for Dr. Lazlo Rothbart